Did She Just Say That?

"GalacticGal;d-995151" wrote:
"Oh, darkness, gloom."

I will be using this next time I'm unhappy about something haha.

I swear I've heard my Sims say things in English before; like "Good luck" while playing horseshoes.
It's probably just our imagination (maybe we play too much Sims haha).

I do think there are real word and phrases buried among the simlish. Once my sim looked in my general direction and I swore he said “It’s you.” I wondered at the time if that was some kind of Easter egg tied to the action of looking toward the camera.

I think it's true that our brains try to make sense of things, so that may be why we feel that we hear "real words" in The Sims. Similar to how we see faces in wallpaper patterns and inanimate objects (like cars and plug sockets) etc.

I'm sure there is an interesting psychological study in here somewhere.

Or maybe we all need a healthy break from our games! :lol:

"babajayne;c-18003065" wrote:
Sometimes I hear “Steve”, which is my husband’s name. Is it just me?

I hear that phrase a lot and hear it as "steeb" so yeah, I think we tend to insert things that make sense to us any time there's an issue with clear audibility. We already know we humans do that with basically everything: our minds impose meaning to randomness, or why we see faces in clouds and irregular-patterned wallpaper and so on as mentioned by @GirlFromIpanema above.

Some Sims4 simlish phrases I can even hear in my head because they replay so often, are "Doh dah veppy!" and "Happy I'm frahm!" (happy you're from something? Okay dude, I'm happy for you too!) but that's because there are such a limited number of stock Simlish phrases in 4, compared to 3, that it's like one of those Elmo toys that says the same six phrases over and over again. Gets tiresome fast.

Some are obviously based on English words, "Noom!" (yum, or num!), "newboo hungah!" when feeding a baby (commenting literally "noob hungies!" and then there's "neeb!" meaning a flat no, and "disgufah!" meaning disgusting! as a comment when grossed out by trash or stinky diapers.

I’m positive I just heard a newly-created Sim say “waffle Tuesday”. XD

"ignominiusrex;c-18003147" wrote:

"babajayne;c-18003065" wrote:
Sometimes I hear “Steve”, which is my husband’s name. Is it just me?

I hear that phrase a lot and hear it as "steeb" so yeah, I think we tend to insert things that make sense to us any time there's an issue with clear audibility. We already know we humans do that with basically everything: our minds impose meaning to randomness, or why we see faces in clouds and irregular-patterned wallpaper and so on as mentioned by @GirlFromIpanema above.

Some Sims4 simlish phrases I can even hear in my head because they replay so often, are "Doh dah veppy!" and "Happy I'm frahm!" (happy you're from something? Okay dude, I'm happy for you too!) but that's because there are such a limited number of stock Simlish phrases in 4, compared to 3, that it's like one of those Elmo toys that says the same six phrases over and over again. Gets tiresome fast.

Some are obviously based on English words, "Noom!" (yum, or num!), "newboo hungah!" when feeding a baby (commenting literally "noob hungies!" and then there's "neeb!" meaning a flat no, and "disgufah!" meaning disgusting! as a comment when grossed out by trash or stinky diapers.

I've always wondered what neeb could mean. LOL Thanks. Erik Cantrell says that one a lot!

"GirlFromIpanema;c-18003091" wrote:
I think it's true that our brains try to make sense of things, so that may be why we feel that we hear "real words" in The Sims. Similar to how we see faces in wallpaper patterns and inanimate objects (like cars and plug sockets) etc.

I'm sure there is an interesting psychological study in here somewhere.

Or maybe we all need a healthy break from our games! :lol:

Actually, I do believe the devs admitted that Simlish is a mish-mash of words from all languages. I used to pick up Russian words back in Sims3, I believe it was. (I took one year of Russian close to 50 years ago.) But you're quite correct, our mind fills in the lines, as it were, in interpreting the undiscernible. That's why in Art Class my instructor suggested we don't fill in an entire line for a cheek or even the nose of the person we were drawing. Let the brain do the rest. When I write, I tend to the something similar. I use description to a minimum and let my readers' minds do the rest.

I hardly played the game more than two-three days a week in the beginning, which is why it took just over a year to complete Pinstar's Legacy Challenge. I'm just now playing every day. I do come up for 'air' upon occasion and do some genealogy and some editing (which I must get back to, if said book is going to be in a form to handout at the next family reunion).

Thanks for weighing in. Your words are very insightful.

Whenever I take a spellcaster sim into CAS they use a phrase that sounds like tod-bumkis during the Magic animation. I figured if they were that obsessed, we needed to do something about it. There is now some schlump name Todd Bumpkiss living in Willow Creek. We’ll see how that goes.

Not paid much attention in TS4, but I've heard English and Spanish in TS 2.

I experienced the opposite phenomenon this evening: I heard a human, in the real world, speak Simlish!

I was at the grocery store and, as I was pushing my cart up the aisle, I met a young woman heading the other way. Her phone rang, and she stopped to take the call. Then, she greeted the person on the other end with "Sul sul!" My daughter was with me, and she couldn't help giggling at her.

"I think she plays The Sims," Daughter declared to me...loud enough for the woman on the phone to hear.

She simply smiled and nodded "yes."